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Root Galaxy/Stock android on behold 2 - It flies!

bukhsyed said:
guy i just tried it and it is not working it is just giving the samsung logo again and again, now i tried the download mode and tried to flash the odin file but can anyone please guide me alittle bit more i dont know how to do it keeps giving error saying check image please can someone tell me how to make it work the stupid style:D
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its not an error, first place the correct ops file then the correct pda file, then click start and let it finish. Make sure you are using the correct odin files, also make sure you extract the files before useing them!
 
For Real...The phone is a real phone now...OMG...all of my stuff now works.

Visual voicemail...WAS NOT WORKING FOR ME AT ALL. it now works...got my message I've been trying to get.

contacts, works, the dialer, now easy to get to. ALL the Crap I have been complaining about, now works. and works VERY VERY FAST. I installed 10 apps in about 1 minute. Maybe the proc is overclocked but it now works. All those background apps, gone, the standard 6 are running. It really, really works people....Thank you...where do we send donations!!!!
 
bigbolden said:
For Real...The phone is a real phone now...OMG...all of my stuff now works.

Visual voicemail...WAS NOT WORKING FOR ME AT ALL. it now works...got my message I've been trying to get.

contacts, works, the dialer, now easy to get to. ALL the Crap I have been complaining about, now works. and works VERY VERY FAST. I installed 10 apps in about 1 minute. Maybe the proc is overclocked but it now works. All those background apps, gone, the standard 6 are running. It really, really works people....Thank you...where do we send donations!!!!
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While it was a group effort, it absolutely would not have happened without Kam187... donations should go to him. Kam, your donation link, please?
 
now can someone show me a video of how well it works? that would be appreciated and I can't wait to hear when yall get on with porting over a working variation of Android 2.x


good job to everyone who worked on this project keep it up.
 
shawn1224 said:
Holy cow it does fly.

My only question, can you still use Samsung's stock camera and music player? I prefer those to Android's stock features

Also what happens with the cube thingamajiggy?
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All of the samsung touchwiz related bloatware is gone... that's why it's so fast.

We haven't figured out the camera yet, but the music player should be as simple as copying the .apk for it to the sdcard and then installing it via appinstaller or astro once after the reset.

The cube is gone. That was part of the goal of the project.
 
hey guys!

The reason it flies is that there's ALOT of extra ram now. That means that almost the entire system can be loaded into RAM and run from memory instead of being loaded again and again from the sdcard/flash. There's no 'overclocking' etc. You should see better battery life too.

I don't really expect donations, but if you really want to, donate to the 2.x project in my signature. It was originally to get a galaxy dev a galaxy to develop 2.0 on - which can be ported to your behold too :) If it raises alot i'll put it towards another device for any dev stuck without one. Or hey i might even buy a behold myself!
 
This is great news!!! Got meself a li'l project for this weekend.

For those that have "de-Samsungized" their BII, how's the battery life now?
 
Sounds good to me but is there a basic step by step tutorial?

I try but I'm not all that computer savy ... I just recently figured out how to get DDMS on the SDK to recognize the Behold II so I could take screenshots.
 
I would recommend for all of you to try to get ODIN working FIRST!!

Use it to 'restore' you're galaxy back to factory. You don't need to do this first, but its alot easier to have it working and ready in case you mess up this process. You can then Odin and start again, or give up :)

Thanks to mobileband, My420Time, rkhalil2009 (and anyone i missed?) We have a speakerphone fix. Unzip this to your sdcard.

http://shrunk.me/AudioVolume.zip

Then before rebooting do this:

mv /etc/AudioVolume.txt /etc/AudioVolume.old
cp /sdcard/AudoVolume.txt /etc

I'll update the first post
 
hohoeyo said:
This is great news!!! Got meself a li'l project for this weekend.

For those that have "de-Samsungized" their BII, how's the battery life now?
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20% more... maybe longer... tough to say... but it lived for the full day for the first time since i've owned it yesterday.
 
mobileband said:
All of the samsung touchwiz related bloatware is gone... that's why it's so fast.

We haven't figured out the camera yet, but the music player should be as simple as copying the .apk for it to the sdcard and then installing it via appinstaller or astro once after the reset.

The cube is gone. That was part of the goal of the project.
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Heh - Once everything is working correctly I am going to write a small taskkiller app and bind it to the cube key for myself. Also, it should be noted that the camera does work but you will see an error message everytime it loads... but that can be ignored.
 
Yeah its the default android camera app, not the fancy behold one. We're working on porting it :)

Also already binding the cube to a task killer :) Its not hard. Compare the keyboard files in /usr to make it catch the key even, then make it think your app is the 'cube'
 
do you still have to use the dedicated lock button on the side or does it unlock by pressing the menu button twice?
 
should still need the dedicated lock button, but it should work alot better. That button s responsivness is affected by CPU usage/ram
 
Is there any possible way that you guys can work in some of samsung's good features like the camera and the video player?
 
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